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Primer of Forestry. This important bulletin by Pinchot, director 

 of the Bureau of Forestry, is now available in the complete form, 

 Part I having been reprinted and Part II recently issued. Part I 

 deals with the general principles of forestry and Part JJ with prac- 

 tical management. The price, cloth binding, is 35 cents for each 

 part; for sale by Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. 

 An extract of Part I is also published as a Farmers' Bulletin for 

 free distribution (apply to Secretary of Agriculture). 



Maple Sugar Industry. An interesting pamphlet of 56 pages has 

 been published by the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. It treats of sugar 

 making by the Indians, white settlers, and recent improvements; the 

 various kinds of maples; the management of sugar groves; maple 

 sap; and adulterations. The pamphlet will be useful to teachers who 

 refer to maple trees. The price of the pamphlet is 5 cents; for 

 sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. 



Key to Forest Trees, based on their leaf characters, has been pre- 

 pared for Indiana by Professor Stanley Coulter and H. B. Dorner, 

 of Purdue University. The pamphlet of ten pages is very convenient 

 and could easily be modified to fit trees of other states. 



Cleveland Home Gardens. The fifth (1904) report of the Home 

 Gardening Association of Cleveland, Ohio, indicates continued prog- 

 ress in the work of that organization. The sale of seeds alone is 

 a good sign of the extent of the movement ; 237,393 packages of seeds 

 and bulbs, 57,857 to schools outside the city. Four gardens for 

 schools were established, and this work is being extended during the 

 present summer. As in former years, flower shows aroused great 

 interest; and shows were held in forty schools. Many more citizens 

 have been persuaded that the work is valuable and their contribu- 

 tions of money and of land for gardens have aided in extending the 

 work. Those interested in home gardens — and every city and town 

 should have an organization for encouraging gardening — will find 

 the fourth and fifth reports of the Cleveland Association helpful and, 

 in fact, indepensable. They may be obtained from President E. W. 

 Haines, 262 St. Clair St., Cleveland, O. Twenty-five cents per copy 

 should be sent. 



Boys' Agricultural Clubs. A circular with this title is Extract No. 

 362 from the 1904 year book of the Department of Agriculture. It 

 describes an interesting phase of the great movement forward in 

 agricultural education. It is interesting to learn that in Illinois, 

 Ohio, Iowa and other states of that region the boys have manv well 

 organized clubs for study of farm problems and that thev take full 



